A Journey To Overcome Shyness
What is shyness? What it is like to be a shy person? A person who just is not interested in having a conversation? Or someone who just prefers their own company over other people? The textbook definition of ‘shy’ says ‘a person who is frightened to do something or to become involved in something. But how true is this? Let us dig a layer deeper into this topic. Traveling back around 5 years in time, my school days, I used to get comments like ‘he is so shy’, ‘speak up man’, ‘why don’t you participate in class’. Remember those silly parent-teacher meetings? I used to hate them. Tired of hearing the same thing over and over again. ‘He remains quiet most of the time, he should speak up in classes’. That was the time I started wondering if it was really that bad to be a shy person? Am I doing something wrong? I, most of the time, preferred to be with my small group of friends. I never socially interacted with a lot of people in my school. That didn’t make me feel I was doing something wrong